# New to Radiant and confused **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [August 1, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-radiant-and-confused/111005 "2007-08-01T21:09:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-radiant-and-confused/111005/1 "2007-08-01T21:09:14Z")
I’ve done a little bit with Radiant but I haven’t done much digging into the more complex functionality. I’m a bit confused about something though. Looking at things like the Blog demo, is the answer to really create each post as a child? Isn’t this going to be unwieldy when a blog has say, 3000 posts on it? The site I’m working on (for my High School class) is going to have a News area with stories posted occasionally, in similar fashion to the blog demo. I would somewhat prefer a more simple method of adding the stories to a table, but then it seems I would lose the ability to iterate through them as children and such. The same idea applies with the lists of people-- I don’t think having 500 child pages, one for each person, is logical, but I’m missing the correct way to do this, I think. What I feel like I’m after is something that would let me iterate through a table (with a parameter attached to filter the options), and then display each item in a certain way, without creating a billion child pages. Any information would be appreciated, and I apologize if this is a completely stupid question. Thanks, –Mike ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-radiant-and-confused/111005/2 "2007-08-01T21:20:16Z")
You may not be up to the task but I wrote a Directory and News extension which provides a management system like you described, tabular and paginated. I then incorporate the material into sites using the custom radius tags I wrote for the extension. Maybe Sean or someone else who runs a blog can describe how they maintain sanity as the number of posts grows. -James